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IT manager accused of extorting employer by blocking hundreds of workstations

Ransomware threats don’t always have to come from outside the victim organization. Take Daniel Rhyne, a 57-year-old man from Kansas City, Missouri, who is accused of locking up and extorting money from his own employer.

Rhyne reportedly worked at an industrial company in Somerset County, New Jersey, late last year. One day in November, he reset the passwords of all network administrator accounts, as well as hundreds of user accounts. He deleted all backups and locked users out of hundreds of servers and thousands of workstations. About an hour later, he emailed everyone to notify them of the attack and demanded a ransom payment in exchange for regaining access.

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